Description
‘Motel’ by Pavel Guliaev
Artist: Pavel Guliaev
Title: ‘Motel’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 27.5″ x 27.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2019
About the Artwork:
The Motel is a place that waits for everyone
at the end of a long day’s journey. This is the place
where “today” ends and “tomorrow” begins. The
Motel doors are portals from today to tomorrow.
And it happens that in this place ends “ here “and
begins “there”. And this “there” may be completely
us, not expected. Leaving the Motel in the morning,
we can find ourselves in a completely different
world, not the one in which we were yesterday.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
What I do as an artist can be called “Subjective Realism” or “Subjective Symbolism”.
In my paintings, I unite realism and symbolism, and at the same time, the reflection of reality occurs through the use of symbolic elements that complement and, perhaps, explain reality. Reality is processed at a subconscious level and becomes subjective. Unconsciously arising images and forms allow to strengthen the emotional and semantic loading of the picture. With superficial illogicality, everything is built on an internal logical basis. I unite the physical and metaphysical world.
“Imago mundi nova, imago nulla” – the world has no image, we create it ourselves.
The symbols in my pictures are mine, subjective symbols, and they may not fit into the historically formed system of symbols and images. I myself create my own, subjective reality, mapping it on the plane. Each object, each image is endowed with a symbol, and the most interesting is that the very meaning of any symbol can vary depending on the context. My reality is dynamic and polysimantic and is filled with emotional and speculative meanings, understanding of which is sometimes unavailable or can vary depending on various circumstances.